The Next Basin Plan–a disaster in the making The original Plan was deeply flawed and new Plan will also fail to protect and restore the rivers of Murray-Darling Basin, and all who depend on them. bit.ly/3T5zCJd

Dbytes #726 (7 July 2026) News in environmental decision making 1. Planning treats habitat loss as the cost of progress 2. Unbearable Anthropocentrism at Our World in Data 3. Local perceptions shape grassland restoration 4. What World Looks Like at 3C of Warming And more bit.ly/4aGotVm

Dbytes #724 (24 June 2026) News in environmental decision making 1. Sustainable development report 2026 2. AI data centres draining Australia 3. Confronting disruption and seeing it coming 4. Natural capital is fine. Just don’t mention ‘accounting’ And more bit.ly/4wiNVZc

An International Day for Water Justice The Second International Day for Water Justice was held in Mexico in January 2026. Here we discuss why the theme of water justice cannot be ignored in a world struggling to achieve sustainability. www.globalwaterforum.org/2026/06/25/a...

Dbytes #724 (24 June 2026) News in environmental decision making 1. Wildlife gardeners support native bees 2. Legal design principles for environmental reform 3. Social-ecological networks for urban ecology 4. Restoration and rehabilitation of floodplain wetlands And more bit.ly/4eH1QkT

Dbytes #723 (17 June 2026) News in environmental decision making 1. No to bringing back native forest logging 2. Bottom-Tow Fisheries Sustainability 3. Credentials Don’t Convince 4. Diverse discourses in landscape restoration And more bit.ly/4uIfXwd

Dbytes #722 (10 June 2026) News in environmental decision making 1. Understand the nature impact of the ASX200 2. Mangrove forests are healing 3. The UK Nature's Rights Bill 4. Equality & Prosperity Within Planetary Boundaries And more bit.ly/4ehGJ8w

Dbytes #721 (3 June 2026) News in environmental decision making 1. Australia's land use future: an integrated approach 2. Democratic Systems with More-than-humans 3. Australia’s new environment laws a box‑ticking exercise 4. Critical refuges for a threatened mammal And more bit.ly/437tm5E

What’s in your water? Introducing the Australian Drinking Water Record Critical data gaps remain in relation to drinking water quality in Australia. A new resource hopes to fill those gaps. www.globalwaterforum.org/2026/05/29/w...

Dbytes #720 (28 May 2026) News in environmental decision making 1. Feral cats bounties don’t work 2. Responsibilized & powerless 3. Sealife triples in MPAs 4. The Great Acceleration Anomaly And more sustainabilitybites.com/dbytes/dbyte...

The water that vanishes into thin air and the global rewrite of the rules that could finally count it A new study finds evaporation from irrigation storages in the Murray–Darling Basin is nearly 40% of the water taken from its rivers. bit.ly/4f1PCoB

Dbytes #719 (20 May 2026) News in environmental decision making 1. What’s in the 2026-27 federal budget for nature? 2. National Environmental Standards 3. Climate Theatre Is the New Denial 4. Reef snapshot And more bit.ly/4eYjQsD

Dbytes #718 (13 May 2026) News in environmental decision making 1. 4 major problems with draft Environmental Standards 2. New wave of biodiversity assessment, offset planning 3. Beach law in the Anthropocene 4. Citing Indigenous Knowledges And more bit.ly/4wqM7hG

Dbytes #717 (5 May 2026) News in environmental decision making 1. Australia & the national ecosystem accounts 2. Nature’s role in national security 3. Report on North Basin Toolkit 4. AI tool protects native spp And more bit.ly/3QQPaQ2

Australia quietly released the national ecosystem account last week. Now we need to use them Michael Vardon explains why these accounts are important and how we could be using them. He laments at how little attention they are given. bit.ly/48Bx3Ul

Dbytes #716 (29 April 2026) News in environmental decision making 1. Efforts to halt global forest loss aren’t working 2. The 'Iron Law' of Climate Policy 3. Thermal drones for wildlife research in tropical forests 4. WaterNSW criticised for ‘appalling’ decision in wetlands & more bit.ly/3R8MFZl

Hot off the press on D-Bytes this week - thank you @susbites.bsky.social apo.org.au/node/334014?... @grattaninstitute.bsky.social

‘President Trump had called the plan [to reduce shipping emissions] a "green scam" and representatives of his administration had threatened countries with tariffs if they had voted in favour.’ www.bbc.com/news/article...

Dbytes #715 (15 April 2026) News in environmental decision making 1. Planting trees to remove carbon - trade‑offs 2. Are Data Centers Bad for the Environment? 3. Intergenerational foresight 4. Emperor penguin and Antarctic fur seal are now officially endangered And more bit.ly/4u5sPwz

theconversation.com/to-stop-aust... @susbites.bsky.social

Dbytes #714 (15 April 2026) News in environmental decision making 1. Benefit from retaining regrowth on private land 2. Aust’s alpine ash forests now officially endangered 3. Human population surpasses sustainable carrying capacity 4. Robodebt for the environment? And more bit.ly/4dJlGwX

Dbytes #713 (8 April 2026) News in environmental decision making 1. Logging makes Tas forests more flammable 2. Australia’s Strategy for Nature 2024–2030 3. Rainforest trees on former sugarcane land 4. Woody vegetation diversity remains low after restoration And more bit.ly/4c7Olcr

This is really, really bad news for Australia: a extra-strength "super El Nino" might be forming this year www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2026...

Dbytes #712 (1 April 2026) News in environmental decision making 1. Maintaining endangered grassy woodlands 2. Scattered Trees on Farmland a Boon for Wildlife 3. Beyond area: Evaluating Australia's contribution to Aichi Target 11 4. State of the global climate 2025 And more bit.ly/4v7MkG4

Dbytes #711 (24 March 2026) News in environmental decision making 1. Nutrient run-off & environment impact 2. The echidna in fragmented ag landscapes 3. Urban nature equity & cultural nuances 4. A handbook for strategic foresight And more bit.ly/3PVHQlv

Dbytes #710 (18 March 2026) News in environmental decision making 1. Australia not ‘on track’ to save nature 2. Are soil carbon schemes really working? 3. Urban green-space habitats for insect pollinators 4. News Coverage of Climate Change Falls And more bit.ly/4rH0TND

Dbytes #709 (11 March 2026) News in environmental decision making 1. Blueprint for thriving regions 2. Multi-objective landscapes for conservation 3. Offsetting is no substitute for emissions cuts 4. Earth baiting for fire ants And more bit.ly/4bjwDSW

Dbytes #708 (4 March 2026) News in environmental decision making 1. Prescribed burning for protecting houses 2. Large-scale forest thinning has limited benefits 3. Safeguarding climate-resilient mangroves 4. Intense heatwaves directly threaten native species And more bit.ly/4aXbZrG

Time for global governance to prioritize people and planet over profits, don't you think? 🌎

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Dbytes #707 (26 Feb 2026) News in environmental decision making 1. Global Environmental Governance 2025 2. Women's local knowledge & wildlife management 3. Extreme weather transforming world’s rivers 4. Economists & environ science see differently & more sustainabilitybites.com/dbytes/dbyte...

Dbytes #706 (18 Feb 2026) News in environmental decision making 1. Native wildlife need help after fires 2. Australia’s new Nature Repair Market 3. Biodiversity-harmful subsidies in Australia 4. Money destroying Nature Positive And more bit.ly/4rRtAIf

Dbytes #705 (11 Feb 2026) News in environmental decision making 1. Typology of Aust Bird Communities 2. Household rat poisons ‘unacceptable risk’ to native animals 3. Conservation Learning in Tassie 4. The lower Murray is officially on life support. And more bit.ly/46vhk84

Dbytes #704 (4 Feb 2026) News in environmental decision making 1. Extinction wrapped 2025 2. Biodiversity Loss in Global Food Trade 3. Carbon capture does not reduce emissions 4. Overshoot: The Point of No Return on Climate And more bit.ly/4kgn7UB

#Mozambique is facing its worst #floods in decades. Nearly 700,000 people have been affected, over 100 are dead and many remain missing. Homes and critical infrastructure have been destroyed. The video shows #Copernicus #Sentinel2 before and after the #flood. #climateemergency

It is 85 seconds to midnight. With [waves hands] everything going on, scientists have advanced the Doomsday Clock, saying Earth is closer than it has ever been to destruction

Chart ranking countries by their general reputations. Notice anything? Thanks, MAGA. #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

Tony Abbott (the mad monk), ex PM who was removed from the leadership of the LNP and as PM of Australia at the same time, losing his seat to a highly regarded woman, he's a climate change denialist and misogynist and he is giving the LNP advice. You can't make this shit up.

Fewer than 2,500 Guthega skinks likely survive. Climate change and bushfires are pushing them to the brink. Because they live on mountain peaks, there's no escape to higher ground. This story examines the radical plan to prevent their extinction. au.news.yahoo.com/rare-aussie-...

Reports of billionaires building doomsday bunkers are often read as signs of looming catastrophe. Psychology suggests they reveal something else entirely. johnmenadue.com/post/2026/01...

It would be great if the take away here is that substacks are blogs and blogs are essays without editors and editors are important and substacks should be read with their absence in mind But alas, no, I don’t see that being the lesson learned

It's though they never want to be in government again. "Former PM Tony Abbott has intervened in the Liberal leadership race, urging conservatives to unite behind either Angus Taylor or Andrew Hastie in their bid to oust Sussan Ley from the top job." #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...

www.theguardian.com/environment/... These guys used to come into Swan River in Perth (near Matilda Bay) when we had an easterly many years ago. White vinegar applied immediately helps stings.

Rocks Formed by Microbes Absorb Carbon Day and Night Microbialite ecosystems in South Africa stored an “astonishing” amount of carbon, according to new research eos.org/articles/roc...

Fear of science is curtailing data collection and helping vested interests ruin the planet faster. www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/science... Thanks @susbites.bsky.social for this one

Dbytes #703 (28 Jan 2026) News in environmental decision making 1. Ramsar Convention on Wetlands COP15 2. Cats and foxes did it 3. Biodiversity loss – A security assessment 4. Prioritizing bat roosts for conservation And more bit.ly/49LGLEE

Water Justice: What is it Good For? Only one in three people in low- and middle-income countries have access to safely managed drinking water services. www.globalwaterforum.org/2026/01/22/w...

Dbytes #702 (21 Jan 2026) News in environmental decision making 1. New treaty to protect oceans 2. Trap Cropping to Maximize Ag Yield 3. Biodiversity education matters for next gen 4. Putting nature on the balance sheet And more sustainabilitybites.com/dbytes/dbyte...